

Family Search page about this County	Date Formed	Parent County(ies)	Birth	Marriage	Death	Land	Probate	Court
Anderson	1801	Knox/Grainger	1881	1838	1891	1802	1827	1801
Bedford	1807	Rutherford/Indian lands	1908	1861	1908	1808	1861	1830
Benton	1835	Humphreys/Henry	1881	1838	1881	1820	1836	1836
Bledsoe	1807	Roane/Indian lands	1908	1908	1908	1808	1884	1836
Blount	1795	Knox	1881	1795	1881	1794	1795	1795
Bradley	1835	Cherokee land	1908	1864	1908	1839	1838	1838
Campbell	1806	Anderson/Claiborne	1914	1838	1914	1806	1806	1813
Cannon	1836	Rutherford/Smith/Warren/Coffee	1881	1838	1881	1836	1836	1836
Carroll	1821	Chickasaw lands	1908	1838	1908	1820	1822	1821
Carter	1796	Washington	1881	1790	1881	1795	1794	1804
Cheatham	1856	Davidson/Dickson/Montgomery/Robertson	1881	1856	1881	1856	1856	1856
Chester	1879	Hardman/Madison/Henderson/McNairy	1908	1891	1908	1891	1891	1882
Claiborne	1801	Grainger/Hawkins	1908	1838	1908	1801	1801	1801
Clay	1870	Jackson/Overton	1908	1871	1908	1871	1871	1871
Cocke	1797	Jefferson	1908	1877	1908	1856	1876	1877
Coffee	1836	Franklin/Warren/Bedford	1881	1853	1881	1836	1833	1836
Crockett	1871	Madison/Dyer/Gibson/Haywood	1909	1872	1909	1870	1872	1871
Cumberland	1856	Bledsoe/Morgan/White/Rhea/Fentress/Putnam/Roane	1914	1905	1914	1854	1904	1897
Davidson	1783	Indian lands	1881	1789	1881	1784	1784	1783
Decatur	1845	Perry	1881	1869	1908	1846	1869	1860
DeKalb	1837	Warren/White/Jackson/Smith	1914	1848	1914	1838	1838	1837
Dickson	1803	Montgomery/Robertson	1859	1817	1908	1804	1800	1804
Dyer	1823	Chickasaw lands	1908	1860	1881	1820	1853	1848
Fayette	1824	Shelby/Hardeman	1914	1838	1914	1821	1836	1824
Fentress	1823	Morgan/Overton/White	1914	1905	1914	1820	1905	1842
Fr anklin	1807	Bedford/Warren	1881	1838	1881	1807	1808	1832
Gibson	1823	Chickasaw lands	1881	1824	1909	1819	1824	1824
Giles	1809	Maury	1908	1865	1908	1790	1810	1810
Grainger	1796	Hawkins/Knox	1908	1796	1908	1796	1796	1796
Greene	1783	Washington, N.C.	1881	1780	1881	1785	1802	1783
Grundy	1844	Franklin/Warren/Coffee/Marion	1908	1850	1908	1852	1838	1844
Hamblen	1870	Grainger/Greene/Jefferson/Hawkins	1909	1863	1909	1870	1870	1870
Hamilton	1819	Cherokee lands	1881	1857	1881	1796	1862	1860
Hancock	1844	Claiborne/Hawkins	1914	1930	1914	1879	1929	1879
Hardeman	1823	Chickasaw lands	1881	1823	1881	1820	1823	1823
Hardin	1819	Chickasaw lands	1881	1863	1881	1820	1825	1820
Hawkins	1785	(as Spencer; renamed, 1786) Sullivan	1914	1820	1914	1787	1786	1810
Haywood	1823	Chickasaw lands	1881	1859	1908	1793	1826	1808
Henderson	1821	Chickasaw lands	1908	1893	1908	1856	1861	1850
Henry	1821	Chickasaw lands	1881	1835	1881	1820	1822	1824
Hickman	1807	Dickson	1914	1868	1914	1808	1846	1844
Houston	1871	Dickson/Stewart/Humphreys/Montgomery	1881	1871	1881	1871	1869	1871
Humphreys	1809	Stewart	1908	1864	1908	1810	1837	1842
Jackson	1801	Smith/Indian lands	1881	1870	1881	1817	1839	1839
James	1871	(abolished; became part of Hamilton, 1919) Hamilton/Bradley
County seat was Ooltewah. Records in Chattanooga, Hamilton County.
Jefferson	1792	Greene/Hawkins	1908	1792	1908	1792	1792	1792
Johnson	1836	Carter	1908	1838	1908	1836	1800	1836
Knox	1792	Greene/Hawkins	1881	1792	1881	1791	1792	1792
Lake	1870	Obion	1914	1883	1914	1870	1871	1870
Lauderdale	1835	Dyer/Tipton/Haywood	1881	1838	1881	1822	1836	1836
Lawrence	1817	Hickman/Indian lands/Maury	1908	1818	1908	1819	1829	1818
Lewis	1843	Hickman/Maury/Wayne/Lawrence	1908	1847	1908	1827	1846	1844
Lincoln	1809	Bedford	1881	1834	1881	1810	1809	1810
Loudon	1870	Blount/Monroe/Roane/McMinn	1908	1870	1908	1870	1870	1870
Macon	1842	Smith/Sumner	1908	1901	1925	1901	1901	1843
Madison	1821	Chickasaw lands	1925	1838	1925	1821	1822	1821
Marion	1817	Cherokee lands	1908	1881	1908	1819	1875	1842
Marshall	1836	Bedford/Lincoln/Maury	1914	1836	1914	1836	1865	1836
Maury	1807	Williamson/Indian lands	1908	1807	1908	1808	1806	1807
McMinn	1819	Cherokee lands	1908	1838	1908	1820	1819	1819
McNairy	1823	Hardin	1881	1861	1925	1823	1857	1855
Meigs	1836	Rhea/Cherokee lands	1909	1838	1909	1835	1836	1836
Monroe	1819	Cherokee lands	1881	1838	1881	1820	1825	1820
Montgomery	1796	Tennessee	1908	1838	1881	1786	1795	1805
Moore	1871	Bedford/Franklin/Coffee/Lincoln	1881	1872	1908	1872	1871	1872
Morgan	1817	Roane/Anderson	1908	1862	1908	1818	1866	1824
Obion	1823	Chickasaw lands	1881	1824	1881	1820	1833	1824
Overton	1806	Jackson/Indian lands	1914	1867	1914	1792	1870	1815
Perry	1819/1821	Hickman/Humphreys	1908	1865	1881	1820	1863	1826
Pickett	1879	Fentress/Overton	1934	1934	1934	1934	1934	1934
Polk	1839	Bradley/McMinn	1908	1894	1908	1894	1873	1840
Putnam	1854	White/Jackson/Overton/Smith/DeKalb	1908	1878	1879	1825	1874	1842
Rhea	1807	Roane	1908	1908	1908	1808	1825	1815
Roane	1801	Knox/Indian lands	1881	1801	1881	1801	1802	1801
Robertson	1796	Tennessee/Sumner	1908	1829	1908	1796	1796	1796
Rutherford	1803	Davidson/Williamson/Wilson	1881	1804	1881	1804	1804	1804
Scott	1849	Fentress/Morgan/Anderson/Campbell	1914	1854	1901	1850	1892	1850
Courthouse fire 1946.
Sequatchie	1857	Hamilton/Marion/Warren	1881	1858	1881	1858	1858	1858
Sevier	1794	Jefferson	1914	1856	1881	1849	1824	1850
Shelby	1819	Indian lands, Hardin	1881	1819	1848	1821	1824	1820
Some Shelby County Probate Court records are available at the Shelby County Public Archives–see Archives, Libraries, and Societies. This includes probate minute books, 1867—1900 and loose papers and wills, 1820—1900 for Shelby County. The Probate Court Clerk’s Office has wills, 1900-present; minute books, 1900-present; and loose papers, 1900-present.
Smith	1799	Sumner/Indian lands	1881	1838	1881	1801	1805	1799
Spencer	1785 (renamed Hawkins, 1786)	Sullivan
Stewart	1803	Montgomery	1881	1838	1881	1789	1812	1804
Sullivan	1779	Washington Dist., Va.	1881	1861	1881	1775	1830	1861
Sumner	1786	Davidson	1881	1787	1881	1787	1789	1787
Tennessee	1788 (abolished; divided into Montgomery and Robertson)	Davidson
County seat was Clarkesville. Records in Robertson County.
Tipton	1823	Chickasaw lands	1881	1840	1881	1820	1824	1823
Trousdale	1870	Macon/Smith/Wilson/Sumner	1908	1905	1909	1905	1905	1903
Unicoi	1875	Carter/Washington	1908	1876	1908	1876	1876	1875
Union	1850	Anderson/Campbell/Knox/Claiborne/Grainger	1881	1864	1881	1856	1856	1854
Van Buren	1840	Warren/White/Bledsoe	1908	1840	1908	1840	1840	1840
Warren	1807	White/Jackson/Smith	1881	1852	1881	1808	1827	1842
Washington	1777	Act of North Carolina Washington Dist.	1908	1787	1908	1778	1778	1778
Wayne	1817	Hickman/Humphreys	1881	1857	1881	1820	1820	1837
An earlier, but separate, “Wayne County” is included in today’s Carter County and part of Johnson County. It was established in 1785 under the state of Franklin but was abolished in 1788.
Weakley	1823	Chickasaw lands	1908	1843	1908	1826	1826	1794
White	1806	Jackson/Smith	1881	1838	1881	1801	1810	18106
Williamson	1799	Davidson	1881	1800	1881	1799	1800	1800
Wilson	1799	Sumner	1881	1802	1908	1789	1802*	1802
*Wills, 1802.